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A Doll's House
A Doll's House (Et dukkehjem) is an 1879 three-act prose play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, published in Copenhagen, whose heroine Nora Helmer leaves her husband and children.
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende), Henrik Ibsen's 1882 five-act play, premiered 13 January 1883 in Christiania; Dr Stockmann's contaminated Baths report pits truth against the town's majority and economic interests.
August Strindberg
August Strindberg (Johan August Strindberg, 1849–1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, and painter; naturalist dramas The Father, Miss Julie, Creditors; post-Inferno dream plays, Intima Teatern, chamber plays; major influence on expressionism, O'Neill, Beckett, Pinter, Bergman.
Ghosts (play)
Ghosts (Gengangere/Gjengangere) is Henrik Ibsen's three-act family drama of 1881 about Helene Alving, her son Oswald, and inherited syphilis. Banned or refused across Scandinavia, it premiered in Chicago in 1882 and became a landmark of naturalist drama.
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a four-act psychological drama by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1890, first staged in Munich on 31 January 1891, whose title character is Hedda Tesman.
Miss Julie
Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is August Strindberg's 1888 one-act naturalistic tragedy of class and sex, set on Midsummer's Eve in a count's kitchen, premiered in Copenhagen in 1889 and endlessly adapted for stage, film, and ballet.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt is Henrik Ibsen's five-act 1867 dramatic poem, written in Danish, about a self-absorbed Norwegian fantasist's lifetime of evasion; premiered 1876 with Edvard Grieg's incidental music and regarded as Norway's national play.
The Master Builder
The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a three-act 1892 play by Henrik Ibsen about Halvard Solness, an aging architect, and Hilda Wangel, who drives him to climb a tower one last time.